Too many fucking YouTube channels on wrestling full of wankers with zero insight. That's what happens when you spend most of your time on production and can produce something that lasts 15 mins 3 times a week.

Meanwhile a dude like Brian Last does four podcasts a week, about 10 hours a week.

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99% of all YouTube rasslin channels are just folks telling you what they stole from Meltzer and Mike Johnson.

This Sunday night’s Backlash show marks the beginning of a new era in WWE, one that would have been shocking even two years ago. For the first time in its history, the world’s largest professional wrestling promotion is attempting to turn a Japanese wrestler into one of its top stars—the top star, in fact, of one of its TV shows. Shinsuke Nakamura, a 37-year-old from Kyoto, has the daunting task of stepping in for far and away the biggest attraction in the business, John Cena, now a part-time wrestler between shooting movies and TV shows.

If not necessarily obvious, this certainly seems like the right move: Nakamura is the most innately charismatic wrestler in the world, with a completely unique persona to which fans gravitate. Hell, they even “singalong” to his instrumental entrance music. While other Japanese stars have been fan favorites in the United States, like Tajiri and Taka Michinoku in WWE, or The Great Muta, Jushin “Thunder” Liger, and Ultimo Dragon in WCW, they were rarely main eventers, much less “the guy.” In the early 1970s, a rookie former college basketball player and Olympic wrestler named Tommy Tsuruta was pushed as a top babyface in west Texas before becoming a legend at home as Jumbo Tsuruta, but that’s about it.

This Sunday night’s Backlash show marks the beginning of a new era in WWE, one that would have been shocking even two years ago. For the first time in its history, the world’s largest professional wrestling promotion is attempting to turn a Japanese wrestler into one of its top stars—the top star, in fact, of one of its TV shows. Shinsuke Nakamura, a 37-year-old from Kyoto, has the daunting task of stepping in for far and away the biggest attraction in the business, John Cena, now a part-time wrestler between shooting movies and TV shows.

If not necessarily obvious, this certainly seems like the right move: Nakamura is the most innately charismatic wrestler in the world, with a completely unique persona to which fans gravitate. Hell, they even “singalong” to his instrumental entrance music. While other Japanese stars have been fan favorites in the United States, like Tajiri and Taka Michinoku in WWE, or The Great Muta, Jushin “Thunder” Liger, and Ultimo Dragon in WCW, they were rarely main eventers, much less “the guy.” In the early 1970s, a rookie former college basketball player and Olympic wrestler named Tommy Tsuruta was pushed as a top babyface in west Texas before becoming a legend at home as Jumbo Tsuruta, but that’s about it.

This Sunday night’s Backlash show marks the beginning of a new era in WWE, one that would have been shocking even two years ago. For the first time in its history, the world’s largest professional wrestling promotion is attempting to turn a Japanese wrestler into one of its top stars—the top star, in fact, of one of its TV shows. Shinsuke Nakamura, a 37-year-old from Kyoto, has the daunting task of stepping in for far and away the biggest attraction in the business, John Cena, now a part-time wrestler between shooting movies and TV shows.

If not necessarily obvious, this certainly seems like the right move: Nakamura is the most innately charismatic wrestler in the world, with a completely unique persona to which fans gravitate. Hell, they even “singalong” to his instrumental entrance music. While other Japanese stars have been fan favorites in the United States, like Tajiri and Taka Michinoku in WWE, or The Great Muta, Jushin “Thunder” Liger, and Ultimo Dragon in WCW, they were rarely main eventers, much less “the guy.” In the early 1970s, a rookie former college basketball player and Olympic wrestler named Tommy Tsuruta was pushed as a top babyface in west Texas before becoming a legend at home as Jumbo Tsuruta, but that’s about it.

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Doubt that WWE seems him as a Cena replacement. A top star potentially for HHH but Vince wants Reigns or another big white guy with English.

And I love Big Nak but he's not going to be the next Rock, Austin, Cena. Maybe CM Punk.